Chapter 36 You are not far from success(1/2)
Discussions about Derby County offensive tactics are buzzing. Under the report of the Daily Mirror, other major English media, such as their direct competitors, said the Sun also participated in the topic.
As a competitor, the Sun naturally cannot follow the topic of the Daily Mirror that they discussed this issue with Derby County's "hidden worries behind three consecutive victories". For this reason, they wrote an article to report on the changes in Derby County after the arrival of Wansheng. The content of the article is quite neutral. It talks about the results brought to Derby County by Wansheng, and also talks about the several transfers of Derby County in the summer. Of course, the focus is on Derby County's three consecutive victories and a draw.
They thought it would be difficult for Derby County to maintain this result.
This is the same as the Daily Mirror's view. In fact, in areas outside Derby County, few media are really optimistic about Derby County. The main reason is that Wan Sheng was too unfamous before, and Derby County has no outstanding and famous players at all. It is a fantasy to stand out in the fiercely competitive League One arena.
In the League One field, teams that can be upgraded will basically be teams with investment.
The scope of coverage seems a bit large, but the reality is that. For example, Portsmouth and Leicester City performed better last season. They were teams that often entered the Premier League. The team's performance has always been very good. Last summer, they invested a lot of money in the transfer market and bought good players, so their performance in the league is naturally good.
There are also many teams that have invested no output. Some teams are striving to compete for an upgrade place, investing millions of pounds in the summer and over tens of millions of pounds to buy good players, but in the end they only scored in the mid-level Premier League. This is normal.
But if you want to produce without investing, you want to upgrade to the Premier League team. There are basically no such thing in recent years. There are few dark horses in the League One. If this is caused by the fierce competition in the league, some teams have good results, but intensive games will suddenly drag down these teams. So even if they have good results, it will be difficult for them to maintain a season.
It is very difficult for Derbyshire to achieve this goal.
As for their head coach Wan Sheng, the Sun gave a good evaluation, 'He may be the best Chinese coach in the future', which is their evaluation. This evaluation is really good in theory, and that is the best Chinese coach! But in fact, does China have a famous coach? Just think about it this way, you will know that the Sun is not optimistic about Wan Sheng.
Even if they are competitors to the Daily Mirror, they cannot report reports that go against their thoughts.
The final result of the lively discussion about Derby County outside the world is still the argument of the Daily Mirror - Derby County cannot maintain good results, and they are about to fall into crisis.
It's just a matter of time.
This is how they see it, and they are also discussing it, in the Derby County area. There are many reports on this aspect, and Derby County fans also know that the fans have different ideas, but the team is doing very well now. They cannot boycott the team because of these reports. That is not the way of a qualified fan. Some fans insist on holding high the banner of supporting the victory, while most fans are waiting and watching. They don’t know whether to listen to these reports, so they remain neutral.
This is normal for fans. After all, Wan Sheng is just leading the team to complete relegation. If Wan Sheng leads the team poorly in the future, they obviously will not support Wan Sheng.
This is for sure.
Fans of any team will look at the results. Good results are fine no matter what. No matter what you say, it is nonsense. This is the reality of the football world, and there is no "human favor" to talk about.
At the same time, this topic is also being discussed within the Derbyshire Club.
But they were not worried about anything, but were unfair for Wan Sheng. Wan Sheng was less than 27 years old and could lead Derby County, which was in crisis, to complete relegation two rounds ahead of schedule, achieving an eye-catching result at the end of the season. In the next four games in the new season, they won three wins and one draw, making Derby County’s points jump to second in the league.
How excellent this is!
If it were others, they would not dare to say 100% certainty, but 99% could not achieve such a good result. Such a good coach was questioned by a group of media. He was actually believed to have no future in Derby County, and was slandered and disapproved by all kinds of people.
This is a bit...too weird!
Some rational people have thought about why. First, because of Wansheng's temper, he offended a lot of media, so the media will not say good things about him. Second, and the most important reason, Wansheng is a Chinese.
If he were an Englishman, whether he was an Englishman, Welshman or a Scot, as long as he was an Englishman, he would have long been touted as the youngest and most promising head coach of the 21st century.
But he is Chinese.
When it comes to China, who can think of football?
No, at least not in Europe. Although racial discrimination is explicitly prohibited by law, Europeans still discriminate against yellow people and black people, and they can't even notice it themselves, but they are sure to look down on it. Especially in football, black people are fine, but few yellow people can play well.
This is true for Europeans, let alone the proudest British in Europe!
The British always think that they are "higher" than others, so they look down on people in other regions. When they see a yellow man succeed, their first reaction is to question it. Especially Wansheng is still so young, they are a little unacceptable. They think such people should be British talents.
What? He must be Chinese?
Then he will definitely not succeed!
These are their subconscious thoughts, not really racism or something. In short, they just don’t like Wansheng. Why do you ask?
They can quickly find various reasons and reasons.
However, as a Derby County player who is familiar with Wan Sheng, he doesn't have that much thought. In the Derby County locker room, many players are very annoyed by the outside world's reports. The coach is so outstanding that he is still questioned in various ways? This is too unfair.
But they had no choice but to be angry.
They are just ordinary players. Reports from the outside world are not something that ordinary players can participate in. Unless one day they become stars and truly influential big stars, what they say will be valued by the media and fans.
A big star of this level... there is only one Ian Taylor in Derby County.
At noon, Ian Taylor said in an interview, "Mr. Wansheng is a very outstanding coach. I respect him very much. He kept me in my current state. When I came to Derby County, I didn't expect that I could reply to such a state. He helped me."
"I am in good physical condition now, and what I am most happy about is that I can still participate in the Derby County championship at the end of my career."
"Champion?" said Ian Taylor. "That's not a joke. Mr. Wansheng said he wanted to win the championship, and he also told us seriously. I believe him because he is an excellent coach."
"They all say that Derby County is about to face a crisis, our tactics will be cracked, and our results cannot be kept like this... I think these are jokes. These are just malicious speculations about us by irrelevant people, and I hope fans don't believe these remarks."
Ian Taylor's words have greatly improved Derby County fans' confidence in the team. In contrast, Ian Taylor is still very influential. After all, he is a legendary star of Aston Villa, and many fans respect him very much. After hearing Taylor say this, Derby County fans also feel that they are really misled by the media.
The team is ranked second in the league after the end of the four games!
What else is not satisfied with this?
However, Ian Taylor's influence only ends with this. His words were like a drop of water dripping into the river, and he could not even lift a wave. One was a balloon star. The other was that he only supported Derbyshire's "Derbyshire Life" and "Derbyshire Sports" or larger media. Even if he knew Taylor's words, he would not report it, because this was contrary to their previous reports, and they would not refute their own views.
Just after the training began that afternoon, Diamares did not organize the training as soon as possible, but instead found Frank Ribery.
"Frank!" Diamares shouted.
Ribery hurriedly looked back and heard Diamares say, "Don't train for now. Wansheng asked me to inform you to go to his office."
"Boss is looking for me?" Ribery was stunned.
Everyone else looked over.
Ribery hurriedly asked, "Gal, what's the matter with the boss looking for me? Do you know?"
"He just asked me to inform you, and didn't say anything specifically." Diamares shook his head.
Ribery was disappointed, and he looked at his teammates and felt helpless.
Several players in the team had the experience of being called by the head coach to talk alone, and had good experiences. For example, Ottoman, who was "lazy", was called over once. That time, it was not a good thing. He was called over once. At that time, Wan Sheng pointed out his passing problem. Other players, such as Reit and Alfred, were also called over, but they were all good things.
In short, both good and bad account for half.
But Ribery thought that Wan Sheng called him would not be a good thing. First of all, his performance in the game was considered to be average, but he definitely couldn't be said to be very outstanding. Another time he was called over, Wan Sheng called him and pointed out his passing problem. Although it was a bit of a point of guidance, it was not a good thing to be pointed out by Wan Sheng in the game.
Ribery was a little nervous. He couldn't think of what Wansheng called him for.
Along the way, he was thinking about where he did something wrong, but he still didn't expect the problem for a long time. He hesitated in front of the office door for a long time. Finally, he shook his head and simply knocked on the office door.
"Please come in."
Wansheng's voice came from the office.
Ribery pushed the door and walked in, and saw Wan Sheng standing in front of the tactical board, writing and drawing, frowning as if thinking about something.
He didn't dare to disturb him, but just stood there waiting.
After a while, Wan Sheng finished his work and his brows stretched out. He turned around and sat in the seat behind the office, and reached out to signal Ribery to sit down, "It doesn't matter if you want it."
Ribery Qiang grinned and sat down with some anxiety.
He saw the performance of the coach in front of him.
It was a very warm smile and very kind, making people feel like bathing in the spring breeze. But thinking about the coach's behavior towards the reporters at his signing ceremony. Then he finally said, "Sorry, I won't accept your interview", and Ribery's heart sank.
This is not a good omen!
Wan Sheng didn't know the complex thoughts that flowed through Ribery's mind. He was just studying how to increase offensive methods.
To increase offensive methods, we naturally need to fight and cooperate more.
It may sound simple, but the word "cooperation" itself is all-encompassing. Any small cooperation requires time to practice. It is not easy to achieve results in a short period of time. But before that, he must use effective methods to increase offensive methods.
He thought of Ribery.
He had always wanted to cooperate and cooperate before, but he didn't expect that there were players in the team with excellent foot skills. Ribery was the most outstanding among them. His foot skills were no different from those famous stars. The only thing he had was lacking in experience and overall cooperation with the team.
Wansheng still took a lot of brain cells when it comes to using Ribery. This is not an easy task. Ribery's skills are so excellent. Why did the Ales Club give up on him? There must be a reason, because Ribery will not cooperate with others.
So the last time Wansheng talked to Ribery alone was to let him cooperate more and less do the ball.
Ribery doesn't pass the ball, and it doesn't work much in the game. Riberydo passes the ball. He is a qualified wing forward.
That's all.
He is just a qualified wing forward, not very outstanding. He thought that more passes would limit Ribery's personal performance, and he was helpful to the team's overall offense. His personal strength was also suppressed by the team's overall strength and could not be fully utilized.
Wansheng's method of increasing offensive methods is to allow Ribery to fully display his strength!
How to do it?
This is a difficult thing. In a team, not every player can exert his strength at will, which is related to the coach's tactics. For example, if a forward player plays as a defender, he will definitely not be able to exert his strength. This example seems to be a bit too far, but the tactics are like this. Under tactics, each player is composed of tactical roles. As one of the components, what players need to do must first ensure that the tactics can be fully exerted, and then the personal ability is exerted.
This also led to the suppression of Ribery's personal abilities and he was unable to fully display them.
When he can drive the ball forward, he needs to pass the ball for tactics and overall team offense; when he can break through to the bottom line and cross, when he sees his teammates want the ball, he will often pass the ball over. These are the reasons that restrict Ribery's performance.
So how to do it?
Wan Sheng thought about it for a long time before he had some ideas, but it took some experiments to find out whether it could be successful.
...
Ribery was a little nervous.
Wan Sheng came to his senses and found that the scar-faced man in front of him was a bit helpless now as if he was a child. He smiled and shook his head, sighing in his heart that the majesty of his head coach had increased a lot without realizing it, and then he spoke out, "Frank, I remember telling you that I brought you to Derby County because of your outstanding ability."
Ribery nodded and looked at Wansheng with some confusion.
To be continued...